• Some of you have been wondering where WINDOID #7 was; well here it is. If it seems to you as if there has been an unusually long time between issues, you're right, it has been. The team has been very busy adding many of the new features you have asked for to HyperCard 1.2.1. However, I think you will find that this issue of WINDOID will have been very much worth waiting for. I have included in here everything I could to give you the information you need to begin using the new version of HyperCard in entirely new and wonderful ways.
Bill and the entire development team have worked hard to give you something really special in this version, and I know you will be as thrilled to use it as we were to assist in its development.
There have been many changes in AHUG since the last issue. I have stepped down as President, and Bryan Carter has emerged as the new President. Bryan works in the Engineering Support Department here in Apple Cupertino and has done an incredible job of organizing AHUG into a first class User Group.
AHUG was happy to sponsor the first public showing of HyperCard v1.2 on May 5. Bill, Dan, and the HyperCard Team wowed a standing-room-only crowd of 350+ very enthusiastic HyperCard users. The two most admired features were CD ROM/ FileServer compatibility as well as enterInField and returnInField.
On July 8th, author Danny Goodman showed us his soon-to-be released book "Danny Goodman's HyperCard Developer's Guide". Danny's book takes a three part, in-depth look at implementing and designing stacks from a user interface point of view. Danny also hinted about an upcoming update to his acclaimed Focal Point time/project management stack.
Additionally and importantly, for those of you that are interested in XCMD's and XFCN's, Gary Bond's book "XCMD's for HyperCard", published by MIS: Press, is required reading. No question, it's the best!
Future meetings of AHUG will feature guests from Apple Computer, HyperPro, Personal Training Systems, SuperMac Technologies, HyperAge, MacUser, and MacWorld magazines.
A major AHUG announcement will be made at MacWorld '88 in Boston. Future issues of WINDOID will have more information.
AHUG has a new telephone number for you to call if you would like to obtain information on the AHUG meeting times and forthcoming agenda. The number is 408-974-1707.
• Please remember that the purpose of this newsletter is to help you help us to make a quality difference in the world. We provide a unique opportunity for WINDOID readers to contribute directly to the ongoing growth and excellence of Apple's HyperCard™.
There is a form at the back of this, and every, issue of WINDOID that allows you to communicate directly with the HyperCard Team. We really want your input. We want to know what you like, and what you don't like, about HyperCard and what features or suggestions you would like to see implemented in future versions. We give you this unique opportunity because we care about you. For those that wrote to us and participated in HyperCard 1.2.1, we thank you. I believe that you will be very pleased you took the time to make yourself heard.
For those of you that would like additional copies of this WINDOID, or back issues, you must send us a stamped-self-addressed-envelope for each one. We will be unable to send you anything without them. If you send us a very large manilla envelope for all of the issues, please put on enough postage for about fifty (50) pages.
Bryan is putting together a mailing list and will be telling you how to receive regular copies as I publish them. Again, if you like HyperCard and WINDOID, please let us know. You will be glad you did.
• If you would like information about AHUG, please send a
stamped-self-addressed-envelope to:
AHUG c/o Bryan K. Carter
Apple Computer Co, Inc.
MS/27-AHUG
20525 Mariani Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014
Our AppleLink‚Ñ¢ is:
UG.AHUG
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about Team
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volume 1 • number 7 • card 2 •
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about TEAM HACKINSLASH
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WHAT'S A
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• There's a rumor on the loose that Team Hackinslash, that small but dedicated group of Macintosh enthusiasts in Honolulu, is not a group at all, but a single man pretending to be an organization.
Well, if you saw my desk, you'd right away stop talking about organization.
I hope this quells the rumors.
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WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR WINDOID?
• WINDOID is the newsletter of the Apple HyperCard User's Group in Cupertino--they put it out in printed form (you can get a copy by sending a request with a SASE to AHUG). Then, some kind member of AHUG uploads the text of WINDOID to an electronic bulletin board. Once it hits the outside world it falls into the hands of HyperCard fanatics such as the members of Team Hackinslash. We were so impressed by WINDOID that we wanted to distribute it even further, and we thought a good stack version would make its way into the hands of more HyperCard users. We've tried to make it clear what comes from AHUG and what comes from Team Hackinslash, so in case something doesn't work as advertised you'll know at whom to bristle.
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If you have comments, questions, or bug reports for Team Hackinslash (instead of for AHUG, whom you can reach by the methods described on the bottom of the main field of this card), send them to:
JKCALHOUN (DELPHI)
John.Kevin.Calhoun@
Dartmouth.edu
(INTERNET or BITNET)
John K. Calhoun
Kiewit Computation Center
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
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• WINDOID number 7
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imMEDIUM deWHO?
• imMedium Design is a rather small group of HyperCard junkies in North Carolina which designs cards and icons for stackWINDOIDs through an odd arrangement with Team Hackinslash. As a result, imMedium Design has developed permanent FatBits eyestrain and a genuine curiosity about why the white paint on card pictures some-times turns transparent without being selected and told to do so.
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SO WHEN'S WINDOID 1.8 COMING OUT, ANYWAY?
• Very soon , if things go as planned. Everything's finished except the proofreading (which could take a few days since it's a long issue). This will catch us up with AHUG's text- WINDOID releases (#8 was the December 1988 issue), and you can expect future stack- WINDOIDs to appear online very shortly after their releases in text form.
• Also tentatively slated for future uploading is (W)INDEX: a central topical index for the WINDOID stacks through Volume 1 Number 8.
(W)INDEX will allow you to browse through your complete WINDOID collection as if it were a single stack.
Beginning with issue 9, each future WINDOID stack will feature a button that will automatically update its contents list to the (W)INDEX stack.
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WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH ALL THESE ICONS, HUH?
• Except for the Team Hackinslash and imMedium Design icons to the left, we release the icons we create for WINDOID stacks into the public domain, so feel free to copy them into your stacks.
If you're planning to keep this issue of WINDOID in your HyperCard Stacks folder, you can use HyperCard's Copy Button and Paste Button commands to move the buttons to other stacks, but if you plan to remove WINDOID from your HyperCard Stacks folder, you'll need to use ResEdit to copy and paste the ICONs from WINDOID's resource fork into your stacks' resource forks
(be careful: work on copies of the stacks!).
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STACK DESIGN NOTE
• Beginning this issue, scrolling fields in WINDOID stacks will no longer be reset to their top lines and button-triggered popup fields will not be re-hidden when you exit a card, background, or the stack itself. We hope this will be useful when you've had to leave a WINDOID stack for some reason and are trying to find the spot where your browsing was interrupted. Please reset WINDOID's scrolls and re-hide popup fields (in effect, you'll be smoothing out the dogeared corners) before passing this stack on to friends, user groups, bulletin boards, and suchlike. Thanks.
• If you have a bug report, question, comment, complaint, request, demand, ultimatum, or edict for us (rather than AHUG, whose address can be found at the bottom of this card's main field), we can be contacted via paperMail at the following address...
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